[gst-devel] sink-plugin does not terminates properly.

[Wim Taymans]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:26 +0530, Vinayak wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written my-sink plugin, this plugin never exits normally. No
> matter what pipeline elements I have used.
> It just keeps on running somewhere, I dont know where the control goes
> after EOS event. I have handled the events. 
A sinks posts an EOS message after it received the EOS event and played
its buffered data (but only in PLAYING), this triggers EOS in the
application.

> I have written functions like unlink, finalize but it seems that it
> never hits there as well. 
> I always have to kill the process to terminate its execution.
> 
> Rest of the plugin functionality works perfectly fine for me. 
> Where should I write my cleanup or exit code for such plugins ? I cant
> derive this plugin from standard BaseSink class. 

Why not? writing is sink is quite complicated, I would not recommend it
at all.

Wim

> 
> Thanks!
> --Vinayak
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